Colleges & Schools

Colleges and Schools

02.09.2016

School of Business

Our mission is to produce leaders in business who glorify God’s Kingdom. We teach business techniques and, at the same time, we teach how business can be used to glorify God. Our mission is to educate and train our students to show that all aspects of business, including profit, competition and financing, glorify God because they are reflective of God’s nature. GCU Business School is unlike others; we emphasize all aspects of business decisions from a Christian respective.

With a degree in Business from GCU, you will be able to:

Understand the relevant financial issues of the current market system

Understand techniques to maximize IT knowledge to communicate both within and outside of corporate organizations

The program offers opportunities for the working professional to gain real business knowledge with a biblical worldview.

School of Christianity

GCU’s School of Christianity educates and disciplines students to serve the Church and Community with Biblical competencies and a Christian Worldview. In every generation, God calls his people to make a difference as they know and live the Scripture. We are committed to providing a quality undergraduate education that integrates the truths of our Lord God's Word with all knowledge. One focus shapes our approach to education: equipping students with the tools – academic, spiritual and practical – that will enable them to fulfill the primary calling of the Word, to provide leadership and educational resources for shaping an effective evangelical presence in church and community.

The Bachelor of Arts in Christian Education (BACE) program focuses on equipping students with personal integrity and integration of theoretical and practical learning specially designed for educational effectiveness and profession.

The Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies Program provides tangible, positive leadership for Christian ministries in general, as well as developing creative strategies and solutions to various problems of ministries in a cross-cultural context at home and abroad.

School of Divinity

The curriculum of the School is composed mainly of four basic emphases: religious heritage, cultural context, personal and spiritual formation, and capacity for ministerial and public leadership. Through its curriculum program, the School’s graduates are expected to:

Be faithful interpreters of the Bible, informed by contemporary biblical scholarship in the area of biblical studies; and of the Christian faith and practice, informed by Reformed-evangelical heritage and history.

Be responsible communicators of diverse social and cultural contexts, informed by ethnic/cultural studies from biblical, missionary, and educational perspectives.

The D. Min. program is designed to educate experienced ministers who are seeking to enhance their ministries with advanced theological understanding and research.

School of Music

The School of Music aims at cultivating musicians and music educators who are endowed with artistic creativity, fine personality, and professional knowledge, and a Christian world view, as well as being experts in music. School of Music tries to be a leader in the musical arts where talented students work with our distinguished faculty. The School of Music educates its students to produce musicians who are able to play dynamic parts all throughout the world, as performers, composers, music scholars, and music educators.

The Master of Arts in Music degree is intended to allow talented musicians who have completed an undergraduate degree in music to pursue intensive graduate studies in performance.

School of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine

The Master’s Degree Program standard at Georgia Central University is in alignment with the guideline of the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM). GCU’s Oriental Medicine Program, which requires at least four years of study after at least two years of accredited postsecondary education, develops the student’s ability to care for patients and enhance learning.

The primary objective of School of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine at Georgia Central University is to cultivate herbal doctors and oriental medicine practitioners equipped with knowledge and clinical competence.